What are best tools available for bacterial genomics?
I am trying to analyse bacteria genomes and do a comparative analysis. It will be really helpful if someone can suggest tools availability and resources available for learning.
I am not an expert, but I found one post here at RG platform, which may be helpful for you: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_analyze_a_full_genome
There are tools developed by communities which are freely available and best for genomic analysis. One of them which I recommend is GaTk. https://gatk.broadinstitute.org/hc/en-us
You can easily find some tutorials for the same on YouTube.
Yes indeed, most of the tutorials are based on mammalian genome but it is also suitable for bacterial genomics. You must refer the documentation and forum for the same.
Hi Sonti Roy . There are several tools available to analyse bacterial genomes. You pick the tools based on what questions you are trying to answer and what datasets you have at hand. If can tell what exactly you want to do you can get specific answers. But I will give some activities I perform with by genomes and I think you can adapt. I am assuming you have the raw illumina or nanopore rreads.
1. Trim data
2. Perform Genome assembly to generate contigs ( I have a video on that here : https://youtu.be/h8AuVoZl2Zo )
3. Reorder your your contigs.
4. Perform Genome annotation ( I made a video here : https://youtu.be/MqDhhuIXjgg )
5. Perform genome comparison using BRIG software ( here is a video to help you : https://youtu.be/pobQgE4z-5Q )
6. Perform Pangenome Analysis
There are more you can do . I recommend you read the document here : https://holtlab.net/tag/comparative-genomics/